Crossroads of Freedom
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6076-6 (ISBN)
By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom—which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the Most Outstanding Book on Latin American History—Walter Fraga charts these slaves' daily lives and recounts their struggle to make a future for themselves following slavery's abolition in 1888. Through painstaking archival research, he illuminates the hopes, difficulties, opportunities, and setbacks of ex-slaves and plantation owners alike as they adjusted to their postabolition environment. Breaking new ground in Brazilian historiography, Fraga does not see an abrupt shift with slavery's abolition; rather, he describes a period of continuous change in which the strategies, customs, and identities that slaves built under slavery allowed them to navigate their newfound freedom. Fraga's analysis of how Recôncavo's residents came to define freedom and slavery more accurately describes this seminal period in Brazilian history, while clarifying how slavery and freedom are understood in the present.
Walter Fraga is Associate Professor in the Department of History of the Federal University of the Bahian Recôncavo in Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil. Mary Ann Mahony is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University.
A Note on Currency and Orthography vii
Introduction to the English-Langauge Edition / Mary Ann Mahony xi
Foreword to the Brazilian Edition / Robert W. Slenes xxiii
Acknowledgments xxvii
Introduction 1
1. Slaves and Masters on Sugar Plantations in the Last Decades of Slavery 9
2. Tension and Conflict on a Recôncavo Sugar Plantation 29
3. Crossroads of Slavery and Freedom, 1880–1888 56
4. May 13, 1888 and Its Immediate Aftermath 74
5. Heads Spinning with Freedom 103
6. After Abolition: Tension and Conflict on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations 139
7. Trajectories of Slaves and Freed People on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations 161
8. Community and Family Life among Freed People 190
9. Other Post-emancipation Itineraries 211
Epilogue. In the Centuries to Come: Projections of Slavery and Freedom 236
Notes 245
Glossary 283
Bibliography 285
Index 301
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.05.2016 |
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Übersetzer | Mary Ann Mahony |
Zusatzinfo | 16 illustrations |
Verlagsort | North Carolina |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 612 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8223-6076-4 / 0822360764 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-6076-6 / 9780822360766 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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